Karedevil Week Day 2 ➸ Love ↠ Happy idiots in love

Karedevil Week, day 1 • Friendship 

{Karedevil Week} Day 4 - Growth // photoset request by @beaucannon ♡

Andrew Belle - Pieces

"You and me

Got ourselves a problem

I can see this

Better than I solve 'em

I believed

I found a way around it

I will leave

This better than I found it

There's too much smoke to see it

There's too much broke to feel this

Well I love you, I love you

Prompt: “Not being able to speak properly after the kiss ends” | @karedevilsquad

Sorry it took so long, sweetie! Hope you like it. Thanks for asking! 💖

So. This was prompted to me by @littledidtheyknow for Karedevil week and frankly I couldn’t not do this because the image was too cute. I hope I did it justice (haha), and you like the result ! 

I don’t know if I’ll have time to ink/finish it so I post it as a sketch only for now. 

I thought long and hard about my favorite angsty scene between Matt and Karen until finally I settled on the one from 2x08 “Guilty as Sin”. You know where Karen shows up unannounced at Matt’s apartment and finds him there with another woman. It’s fairly brief and although this is not their most meaty one on one scene it does pack quiet the emotional punch in the heart.

So things aren’t going well at the Frank Castle trial. Both Karen and Foggy are stressed out and becoming impatient with Matt’s absence. During a recess they argue whether or not they actually need their friend and Karen decides to go find Matt who at that point is distracted tending to his injured ex Elektra. Sure enough the second he hears her come in, he becomes anxious. Matt doesn’t have to use his special abilities to sense Karen’s presence he knows its her and quickly jumps off the bed to see her standing before him in the doorway. 

Oddly enough Matt is surprised to see Karen and he’s unable to process an explanation; the best he do is breathe her name. And she just stands there stunned wearing a confused expression surveying him and the woman lying in his bed. This immediately has me reminiscing back to their first date where Matt politely declines Karen’s offer to sleep with her and at that point I know her heart is breaking. And this is all happening just as she’s starting to figure out her feelings for Matt. She wants to believe he’s not unfaithful but between her frustrations with his disappearing acts Karen isn’t in the mood to get answers. 

As Matt approaches her, he urgently insists they go somewhere to talk privately; but she backs away refusing his hands. Karen isn’t interested, wanting more than ever to just leave. Matt’s voice is shrouded in guilt as he utters “this isn’t what it looks like.”  To which Karen stutters back “it doesn’t-doesn’t matter...” and as she says this I can feel my soul rip in half as the shame washes over his face. He knows he’s hurt her in the worst way, the fact that she won’t let him repair the damages is killing him. And this is a person he never wanted to cause pain. 

Karen can’t even think straight or look him in the eye let alone take in anymore of his excuses. And instead covers up her humiliation with a scapegoat of being there solely about the trial. Before Matt can respond, Karen quickly exits out of the bedroom doorway and hurries to vacate the premises as fast as she can. Leaving Matt standing there in silence, torn, wearing his infamous wounded puppy look as he processes the whole confrontation.  

I don’t know why this scene affects me so much but every time I watch it I’m gutted. I feel for Karen and am just bewildered by Matt’s inability to be honest with her. The acting between Deborah and Charlie is so on point and raw that it leaves you in pit of dread. Its deliberately made awkward to create that authentic aura of a lover catching their significant other red handed yet the atmosphere remains tame and not too overly heated or melodramatic. And because this scene is so small it can be hard to miss the layers going on which is why I consider it one of Karedevil’s most underrated moments on the show.

Ooh there’s a ton, but there’s two that I feel are not appreciated enough:

1) After Ben’s funeral, the way Matt and Karen talk to each other at N&M is quite underrated in my opinion.  The feeling of openness is a stark (and good) contrast to how they were before the hug (god don’t get me started on the hug).  After Matt’s walls broke down and he just let Karen in has had its effect during this conversation, you know?  Hopefully that makes sense.

2) Matt protecting Karen from the Blacksmith’s barrage of bullets- what gets me is that Matt’s very first instinct is to protect Karen.  Even at the potential cost of his safety, he ain’t gonna let her get hurt (bringing it back to the above moment when Matt said he’d protect her, and he kept his promise)

EDIT: I FOUND A THIRD MOMENT I HAVE TO ADD